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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 20:42:45 GMT
His policies and outlook on Politics are pretty much the same. Portillo believes that it is "morally outrageous" to tax anyone over 40%. Make of that what you will - I imagine that most of you lefties who believe in higher taxes would baulk at that.
He's "mellowed" because his Political career came to an end after 1997 and went into TV. There is, or at least there really wasn't any space on mainstream TV for old school conservatives - so you have to appear as a good old Liberal to have any air time nowadays. See Robin Aitken for more information on that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 20:46:00 GMT
You are forgetting Oberstgruppenführer Widdecombe. That bag of rancid shit in a dress made a few quid on the box.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 20:57:31 GMT
He has a bit part on the steph's packed lunch tv show, and he comes across as pleasant enough chap. Is that Ireland's most watched 'trans' show ? I'm missing the joke here.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 21:59:41 GMT
Why has this turned into a Michael Portillo thread
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 22:05:41 GMT
His policies and outlook on Politics are pretty much the same. Portillo believes that it is "morally outrageous" to tax anyone over 40%. Make of that what you will - I imagine that most of you lefties who believe in higher taxes would baulk at that. He's "mellowed" because his Political career came to an end after 1997 and went into TV. There is, or at least there really wasn't any space on mainstream TV for old school conservatives - so you have to appear as a good old Liberal to have any air time nowadays. See Robin Aitken for more information on that. He has mellowed and modified his views - I've heard him say it himself! Your anti left agenda, that you seemingly project on everything, is becoming rabid.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 22:06:41 GMT
Why has this turned into a Michael Portillo thread Yeah let's leave it now and get back to Diego.
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 22:07:51 GMT
Anyway, he uses Richard James as his tailor.
The cerise and lime combo is probably his best.
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 22:09:45 GMT
I didn't know that Maradona was recovering from Hepatitis and wasn't even 100% fit at the '86 World Cup.
Although I suspect that he wouldn't even get near a football pitch in terms of doping in the modern environment.
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Post by tory on Nov 26, 2020 22:34:26 GMT
I hated him for the goal against England I'll admit, particularly when he scored such an amazing goal a few minutes later. It seemed, at the time, like he didn't need to do it and of course it seemed to play to that "latin" tendency of footballers from South America - sublime cheats as it were against the robust stalwarts of the English game - I was 12 and knew no better. I desperately wanted West Germany to win in the final, but when they had the ludicrously permed Rudi Voller upfront, it seemed like Argentina were just destined to win.
Then there was the 1990 World Cup and Argentina losing to Cameroon in the first game, beating a dull but still fancied Brazil (where Maradona really did shine) and literally scraping to a dreadful final that they deservedly lost. By then my dislike of him had worn off, given that he had done so well with Napoli, who were pretty unremarkable until he arrived.
His golden period was over before I was able to gain a true appreciation of him as it were - I went to a few Serie A games in the early 90s and missed out on him by a season or two, which was frustrating.
The appeal to me is that seismic marriage between him and a city. Certainly within football circles I suspect that sort of relationship is never going to happen again, whether for good or bad. It seemed like both the best and the worst place he could have gone to - a miracle and a disaster at the same time. And you couldn't have written a movie script like it.
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Post by oh oooh on Nov 26, 2020 22:52:58 GMT
Anyway, he uses Richard James as his tailor. The cerise and lime combo is probably his best. Only a clown would walk around in that kind of garb.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2020 22:57:12 GMT
Beautiful piece from his teammate Jorge Valdano. link
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 27, 2020 12:53:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 12:58:12 GMT
Aye the Portillo thing took off there. My bad.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 27, 2020 13:08:01 GMT
Beautiful piece from his teammate Jorge Valdano. linkI've read him before and he can write. In his life there resides a superman too because if Jesus Christ rose again on the third day, which isn’t easy, Maradona rose again at least three times, which isn’t easy either. His physical strength was comparable to his footballing genius. All of his many excesses were an attack on his sport, his craft, and yet they still did not ruin his extraordinary talent, nor prevent it from being expressed, even though he sometimes played in alarming condition. In admiration and pity, many different emotions coexist. Today even the ball, the most inclusive, shared of toys, feels alone, inconsolably weeping for the loss of its owner, its master. All of those who love football, real football, cry with it. And those of us who knew him will cry even more for that Diego who, in recent times, had almost disappeared beneath the weight of his legend and his life of excess. Goodbye, great captain.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 27, 2020 13:23:12 GMT
I didn't know that Maradona was recovering from Hepatitis and wasn't even 100% fit at the '86 World Cup. Although I suspect that he wouldn't even get near a football pitch in terms of doping in the modern environment. It makes you think how much of his career was he 100% fit on the pitch? By the time Napoli won the league again in 1990 he's well into the coke you know.
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